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No. 503,640. Patented-Aug. 22 1893.

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ANToN AKER, OF HELENA, AssreNoE on ONE-HALF TO NroKoLAUs WAGNER ANDJACOB wAeNEafoE RIMINI, MONTANA.

HORSE-:POWER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters latent No. 503,640, dated August22, 1893.

Application filed September 14, 1892. Serial No. 445.922. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTON AKER, a citizen .Of the United States, and aresident of the city of Helena, county of Lewis and Clarke, State ofMontana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Applicationand Transmission of Lever-Power, of which the following is aspecification.

It has always been an obstacle to miners of small means, that, ingeneral, as soon as a mining shaft reached any considerable depth, theywere embarrassed by the appearance of water in considerable quantity andpoor ventilation, with which difficulties they could cope only by theuse of costly machinery, often far beyond their means, and thus manypromising prospects have been abandoned for lack of means to secure theexpensive machinery.

Myinvention is intended to supply a cheap but substantial means ofutilizing horse or 1ever power to the best advantage in working a pumpor ventilating blower, or both, and is intended to be used inconjunction with a whim operated by the same lever or levers;

being simple in construction and having no complicated parts, it can betaken to and operated at points remote from machine shops, without fearof possibly needing expensive repairs of skilled workmanship.

It consists in the ordinary sweep, carrying at its base a hub, fittedwith two sets of spokes, an upper and short set, alternating with alower and longer set, in combination with a rock shaft, one end of whichis suspended above this spoked hub, and having twoarms, one of whichreaches the short spokes on one side of the hub, and the other the longspokes on the opposite side; which arms are alternately pushed back andforth as the hub revolves, thus tilting the shaft back and forth, whichmotion is utilized at the other end of the shaft by means of short armsworking a pump or blower, or both.

Figure 1. shows a perspective view of the whole mechanism. Fig. 2. showsa plan of hub and spokes. Fig. 3. shows in detail the spring controlledrods.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in all the drawings.

The long arm A works freely upon the upright pivot shaft B. Fixed uponthe arm A Q at the point where the pivot shaft B passes through it, isthe hub or wheel C, through the center of which the shaft B passesfreely. To this hub 'O. are attached eight or more short spokes of woodor metal, one half of which 0 0 (each alternate one) are longer than theother half 0 c and are fixed several inches lower on thehub. The set ofspokes cc have threaded ends, screwing into threaded holes in the hub O.The set 0 c are shown, attached to the upper side of the hub, but may besecured in same manner as the set 0 c. The length of these spokes willvary with circumstances, such as the room available and the powerwanted. Above this spoked wheel is one end of a long beam or shaft Dthrough which the power is communicated to the pump or blower ator nearits other end. This shaft is supported by iron gudgeons K, fixed in itsends,

working freely in bearings, Z, upon the walls of the building, or propersupports. This shaft has two fiat sides parallel to each other, andfirmly fastened upon these flat sides of the shaft D are the iron framesF F, one upon eachside, consisting of the plain pieces F F and thebraces F F and extending from the shaft to within a short distance ofthe spokes, uponopposite sides of the hub. The lower ends of these framepieces F F are bent at right angles and, through holes m in the stepsff, pass two metal rods G and G supported at their upper ends bybearings g and g on the shaft D, and held in place by strong springs gon the frame pieces F. When in use, the rod G is lowered so as to comein contact with the spokes c, and the rod G so as to come in contactwiththe spokes a near the outer ends of said spokes. Upon the other endof the shaft D are two short arms (I and e, at right angles to theshaft, and upon opposite sides of'it; the arm 61 may be attached to theplunger rod of a pump, having a knuckle joint; and the arm e may beattached to the mechanism of a ventilator. so adjusted, that, at themoment the rod G,

The rods G and G2 are 5 after being pushed by a spoke c, slips from thespoke, the rod G is caught and carried back in the opposite direction bythe spoke c and vice versa, in alternation, thus producing anoscillating motion in the shaft D.

Having thus described my invention, its

mode of operation is as follows: The horse or' other power, such as isneeded, is attached to one or more arms A; the hub O, revolving at thesame rate, carries the two sets of spokes ,0 and 0 these alternatelycatch the ends of the rods G and G tilting the shaft D back and forth,which motion is utilized at the-other end of the shaft D by the arms atand e as before described. The power first exerted is concentrated;first,in theratio of the lengthot the arm Ato the length of the spokes cand o ,'and, again by the ratio of the length of the rods G and G to thelength of the arms (1 and e, and these parts can be so constructed as toutilize the available power to the best advantage. Again, the spokes areso fitted into the hub O as to be easily removable; thus, increasing ordecreasing the number of oscillations of the shaft D. By decreasing thenumber of spokes 0 but may be used with any power, and applied andlowering the rods G and G the stroke of t the arms 01 and 6 will beincreased in length i but decreased in number; while by increasing thenumber of spokes and raising the rods G and G the stroke of the armswill:be increased in number, but diminished in length. It is readilyseen that in certain cases it might be well to use more than one powerarm;- and that this method of transmitting power, is not confined tohorse draft power,

to any purpose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a sweep, of a hub or wheel, fixed thereto atthe pivot, carrying two sets of spokes one above and shorter, andalternating with, the other, and a rockshaft, having two arms, actedupon by said spokes, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination with a hub or wheel carrying two sets of spokes, oneabove and shorter, and alternating with the other, of mechanical meansto revolve said wheel, and

' a rock shaft, having arms, adapted to be acted once of two witnesses,this 6th day of May, I

ANTON AKER. Witnesses:

JACOB WAGNER, EDWARD 0. Russian.

